Security researchers have uncovered a malicious npm package that poses as a legitimate WhatsApp Web API library while quietly stealing messages, credentials, and contact data from developer environments. The package, identified as “lotusbail,” operates as a trojanized wrapper around a genuine WhatsApp client library and had accumulated more than 50k downloads by the time it

To help the Rust language continue scaling across domains and usage levels, the Rust Vision Doc group recommends enumerating the design goals for evolving the language while also improving the crates package system. These suggestions were made in a December 19 blog post titled, “What do people love about Rust?” The group made the following

Deno 2.6, the latest version of the TypeScript, JavaScript, and WebAssembly runtime, adds a tool, called dx, to run binaries from NPM and JSR (JavaScript Registry) packages. The update to the Node.js rival was announced December 10; installation instructions can be found at docs.deno.com. Current users can upgrade by running the deno upgrade command in

JITing, or “just-in-time” compilation, can make relatively slow interpreted languages much faster. Until recently, JITting was available for Python only in the form of specialized third-party libraries, like Numba, or alternate versions of the Python interpreter, like PyPy. A native JIT compiler has been added to Python over its last few releases. At first it

The command line has always been the bedrock of the developer’s world. Since time immemorial, the CLI was a static place defined by the REPL (read-evaluate-print-loop). But now modern AI tools are changing that. The CLI tells you in spartan terms what is happening with your program, and it does exactly what you tell it

Ah, the holidays. No matter what manner of winter celebration you prefer (I’m a Festivus man myself), late December is a fine time for kickin’ back and collecting your thoughts for the coming year. That means it’s also a fine time for contemplating that crazy little computer in your pocket and the steps you can

In March, Computer Sweden reported that Google Assistant would be replaced by the AI tool Gemini in Android-based mobile phones before the new year. With just over a week to go until the end of the year, it is clear that this will not be the case. In a message on the Gemini support page,

The Italian competition authority, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, has fined Apple more than $116 million (€98.6 million) for abusing its dominant position in the market for app distribution to iOS users. The authority considers that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy, introduced in 2021, inhibits competition. The policy requires third-party developers to obtain

Google is suing SerpApi, a web-scraping company that provides its customers with an API that mimics human searching, the latest salvo in the battle over access to data for training and operating AI large language models. Many of the large language models powering AI services today were trained on data scraped from websites, often without

This has been a pivotal 12 months for Microsoft, a year in which it faced increasing competition that threatened to knock the company off its perch as the world’s leader in AI. Even so, Microsoft managed to add about $400 billion to its valuation this year, pushing it to about $3.5 trillion, depending on the